Tag: Patent Registration

Most inventors don’t think much about non-patent literature (NPL). But when it comes to filing a strong patent, this stuff really matters. NPL isn’t just some boring technical paper. It could be a research article. A product manual. A white paper from a competitor. Even a blog post. If it helps explain your invention—or challenges…

Filing your first patent is just the beginning of protecting what you’re building. As your product evolves, so should your patent strategy. That’s where continuations and CIPs come into play—they let you extend coverage, protect improvements, and keep competitors from getting too close. But there’s a critical piece most founders overlook: prior art. Why Continuations…

Most startups don’t think about patents until it’s urgent—and when they finally do, they expect the process to be smooth. But pulling prior art from foreign patent offices into a U.S. Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) is still clunky, slow, and full of room for mistakes. Even with tools like Global Dossier, it’s still way too…

Getting a patent is not just about having a great idea. It’s also about handling a pile of paperwork—and doing it right. One of the biggest pain points for startup founders, engineers, and inventors is the PTO/SB/08 form. It sounds like government code (because it is), but it’s basically a list of other patents and…

You’re almost there. Your patent application is on the edge of being allowed, and then—bam—you realize you need to submit one last IDS. Maybe new prior art showed up. Maybe you filed related cases. Either way, if the examiner already gave you a Notice of Allowance, you’re now stuck. Normally, this means filing an RCE…

Getting a patent isn’t just about having a great idea—it’s also about timing. And one of the most misunderstood pieces of timing in the patent process is when to file an IDS, or Information Disclosure Statement. It sounds simple: you’re just telling the USPTO about any related prior art or documents you know about. But…

Patents are messy. Not because they’re bad—but because the world is big, inventors are everywhere, and people describe the same thing in different ways. If you’re trying to make sense of a huge stack of patent references, the same invention can show up again and again under different names, different countries, or different codes. It’s…

If you’re building something big—tech that matters, a product that changes the game—you probably don’t want to get tripped up by a small legal rule most founders have never heard of. But here’s the thing: Rule 56 can make or break your patent. It’s not just a form. It’s not just a box to check.…

When you’re building something new—especially at startup speed—the last thing you want is legal paperwork slowing you down. But when it comes to patents, there’s one thing you can’t ignore: the Information Disclosure Statement, or IDS. It sounds boring, and honestly, it kind of is. But it’s also one of the most important steps in…